Airbnb in Barcelona

The Law

The Catalan Tourist Act requires that homes used for tourist stays of less than 30 days are required to be registered with the Catalan Tourist Office prior to commencing operation. The registration number must be displayed when advertising the home.

An Inside Airbnb analysis of "Entire homes/apartments" and "private rooms" in Barcelona at January 3 2016, shows that 78% (11,520 out of 14,699 listings) have no license number displayed and are probably unlicensed and illegal.

Airbnb data for Barcelona

Inside Airbnb

Inside Airbnb provides data compiled from the Airbnb web-site for listings available for Barcelona.

A conservative occupancy model has been built in order to estimate Occupancy Rates, Income per Month and Nights per Year. More information on the methodolgy of the occupancy model can be found in the disclaimers.

Inside Airbnb: Barcelona uses the following parameters:

A high availability metric and filter of 90 days per year

A frequently rented filter of 90 days per year

A review rate of 50% for the number of guests making a booking who leave a review

An average booking of 3 nights unless a higher minimum nights is configured for a listing.

A maximum occupancy rate of 70% to ensure the occupancy model does not produce artifically high results based on the available data

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Airbnb

Airbnb provides NO PUBLIC DATA to help understand the use of their platform and the impact on cities around the world.

Airbnb also provide NO DATA to cities or states to assist them in ensuring that Airbnb hosts and Airbnb are following the local laws.

Other data

Tom Slee regularly scrapes the Airbnb site to produce maps and analysis of Airbnb use around the world.

Listings per Host

A host may list separate rooms in the same apartment, or multiple apartments or homes available in their entirity.

Hosts with multiple listings are more likely to be running a business, are unlikely to be living in the property, and in violation of most short term rental laws designed to protect residential housing.